Pedagogy

Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.

Pedagogy

Invitation to Participate: Teaching about Zionism and anti-Zionism in Yiddish Classes

We want to learn from you about how teach­ers of Yid­dish Stud­ies approach (or avoid) teach­ing about Zion­ism and anti-Zion­ism in their class­es, be it in its his­tor­i­cal or con­tem­po­rary manifestations.

Pedagogy

Loyt di lerers: Teaching Outside the University Classroom

Mar­i­anne Tatom polled Yid­dish teach­ers out­side the uni­ver­si­ty class­room about their teach­ing strate­gies and expe­ri­ences teach­ing online dur­ing a pandemic.

Pedagogy

Invitation to Participate: Teaching Yiddish Outside the University Classroom

The lat­est in our series of polls for teach­ers of Yid­dish. This time, we want to learn how you mod­i­fy your teach­ing for dif­fer­ent set­tings — class­room for­mat, class fre­quen­cy, stu­dent com­po­si­tion, and so on. Please take the poll and share widely!

Pedagogy

לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: The Place of the Khurbn in Yiddish Language Classes

How and when do our read­ers teach khurbn mate­ri­als in their Yid­dish lan­guage class­es? We’ve assem­bled respons­es to this poll in our loyt di lerers series.

Pedagogy

לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: The Place of the Khurbn in Yiddish Language Classes

The lat­est in our series in which we poll Yid­dish stud­ies instruc­tors about a top­ic relat­ed to their teach­ing. This time, we want to know whether and how you intro­duce the top­ic of the Holo­caust in your Yid­dish lan­guage instruction.

Pedagogy

Online Yiddish Language Instruction: A Conversation

A con­ver­sa­tion between lan­guage instruc­tors who teach and think about online cours­es, answer­ing a series of ques­tions that we posed in order to reflect on the state of online Yid­dish lan­guage learning. 

Pedagogy

לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: Teaching with Sholem Aleichem

Instruc­tors share their thoughts on teach­ing with Sholem Aleichem.

Pedagogy

לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: The Person Teaching With Yiddish

Instruc­tors share their thoughts on shar­ing about their per­son­al lives and com­mit­ments while teach­ing Yid­dish lan­guage or culture.

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